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Hello! I'm Flash and I am a camera, but everybody calls me 'The
Comenius mascot'. I was born in Spain, in Baudilio Arce School and
I was created by Maria González, a student from year 6.
María González Flash
So, I am the mascot of the Comenius Project titled: 'Travelling
towards multicultural Europe'. The Comenius partners in our
project are:
UK: Botanic Primary School, Belfast, Northern Ireland Stanley Primary School, Blackpool, England.
Poland: The Primary School in Sliedlin.
Italy: Istituto Comprensivo G. Falcone, Catania, Sicily.
Turkey: Vali Kutlu Aktas Ilkokulu, Izmir.
Greece: The 10th Primary School, Thessaloniki
Spain: CEIP Baudilio Arce School, Oviedo.
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MY DIARY SEPTEMBER, 2013
The corners have a space to display, the flags of all partners, a
poster with the title of the project, information about schools and
countries and all the outcomes.
They are fantastic! Here are some photos:
Turkey Northern Ireland England
Poland Greece Italy
Spain
September is a busy month at school. Comenius partners have been
working on their Comenius corners. They will be situated in an
important place in each school where everybody can see it.
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Final mascots
Mascot 1
Mascot 5
Mascot 2
Mascot 6
Mascot 3
Mascot 7
Mascot 4
Mascot 8
Students from different countries will vote their favourite mascot
using 'SurveyMonkey'.
And the winner is….. ME! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!
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Spanish students are drawing their mascots for a contest. It's very
exciting! Oh! I've got many friends! Here are some photos of
the children's favourite mascots:
FLASH, the winning mascot!
through the countries collecting about culture, lifestyle, and
relationships in each country; but I'll need transport! Plane, train,
boat, car, bus, carriage and… hot air balloon!
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OCTOBER, 2013
Oh! I've got an idea! I'm going to do the Comenius trip. I will travel
I love travelling!
It is great! It's the title of the Project! I think it's going to be an
amazing experience!
Europe', and will be displayed to promote the project in partner
countries. The logo will be in all final products.
Well done friends! It's amazing!
And the English school has created the blog of our Comenius
project. And they will create the web page too!
I love the Comenius blog!
'TRAVELLING TOWARDS MULTICULTURAL EUROPE'!
http://travellingtowardsmulticulturaleurope.blogspot.co.uk/
I am still in Spain but the Turkish school has created the logo of the
project in a democratic way, through a competition. It will be
centred around the symbol of 'Travelling towards multicultural
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from Italy, Greece, Poland, Northern Ireland, England and Spain
will meet in Belfast and Blackpool for a week. Unfortunately,
Turkish teachers had VISA issues.
First visit: Botanic Primary School. Belfast
Comenius partners Botanic Primary School Stormont Buildings
We are in Belfast! It is the first time we meet each other. Mr.Paul
Bell and Mrs Nicola Henderson are our hosts. We have the
oportunity to visit the school, observing lessons, work on the
project, collect the information for second contacts in each school
(to ensure our project work continue as planned in case of illness or
absence). We also have the chance to visit Ashfield Girl's Hight
School, the Titanic Museum, a tour around the city, Stormont
buildings and meet the Junior Minister. It's amazing!
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FIRST WORKING MEETING!
Wow! First Working meeting in The United Kingdom! Teachers
Stanley Primary School Working meeting Harvest Festival performance
After a really lovely time in Belfast, we leave the hotel for Belfast
International Airport for flight to Manchester at 7.05am. A busy
morning! I am tired!
We have arrived at Stanley Primary School. Mr Craig England
(headmaster), teachers and students are waiting for us. They have
prepared a traditional Harvest Festival performance by the infant
children and an assembly about Blackpool by Year 5 children. I'm
really happy because we have the chance to visit Blackpool Tower,
Ballroom and Circus, as well as Blackpool Zoo; and also see the
world-famous Illuminations and some illuminated trams.
Time to back home! At the end of the meeting, we met Mr.
England in London where we visited the HMS Belfast (a museum
ship) and the most famous places of the city.
Second visit: Stanley Primary School. Blackpool.
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HMS Belfast UNFORGETABLE!
All of the schools have been busy these past few days video-
conferencing with one another. Unfortunately, the English and
Northern Irish schools were having some technical issues, so didn't
manage to chat. However, they have started correspondence by
post and will be trying to video-conference again next week. That's
great we can connect via Skype with other people and share
information. What a lovely way to be in contact! New technologies
are in the project!
Here are some photos
Schools will Skype once a month.
I can wait for the next video-conferencing!
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NOVEMBER, 2013
VIDEO-CONFERENCING
DECEMBER, 2013 December! We are getting ready for Christmas! I'm wearing my
English school.
https://sites.google.com/site/multiculturaleurope2013/
Father Christmas' clothes to send season's greetings to my friends.
Students from different schools are making Christmas cards to
send to their new friends. And we also will send our best wishes
through the Comenius blog.
Our Comenius project also has a nice web page created by the
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Merry Christmas
everyone!
Schools are busy after Christmas time. They are gathering and
collecting information about different kinds of transport (one for
each country). They are preparing multimedia presentations
(Power point, Slide Share, Slide boom) and wonderful scrapbooks.
Each school will work on a kind of transport:
Spain, the train; Italy, the car; Poland, the bus and the carriage;
Turkey, the hot air balloon; Greece, the plane and U.K. (England
and Northern Ireland), the boat.
JANUARY & FEBRUARY, 2014
MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATIONS
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Have a look at these fantastic scrapbooks.
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Students are working on their scrapbooks to prepare their
Multimedia presentation and via video-conference, they will
present it to the rest of the schools.
I was taking the photo!
It's a very nice country and people are friendly. Guess what! It's the
second working meeting! Yes!!!
Teachers from the UK, Italy, Poland, Greece and Spain will meet
their Turkish colleagues at Vali Kutlu Aktas Primary School in
Balçova, Izmir. Mrs Meryem Demirkiram Soucas, the whole staff,
parents and students are waiting for us.
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MARCH, 2014
SECOND WORKING MEETING!
I am in Izmir, Turkey
Klutu Aktas Ilkokulu Comenius corner Lesson
Ephesus Virgin Mary's house Sirince
Our visit began with a day at school where we joined in with English
lessons and children dramatized their information on hot air
balloons. We attended a reception at the National Education
Department; we worked on the project, evaluated all the activities
different school has done since the last meeting and the blog's
results. It was really nice to see the Schools' multimedia
presentations. I especially enjoyed the lesson observation and the
meetings with teachers, students and parents. And, of course, the
Turkish delicious food, the city tour, our visit to the wonderful city
of Ephesus, Virgin Mary's house, Sirince village and Kemeralti.
WE WON'T FORGET THIS MEETING!
Thank you!
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There are many things to do and many places to visit!
Back home from Turkey and busy time again!
It's time to do the 'Dramatising readings about the history of
transport'. Pupils in each school will swap information compiled
through the blog. Another school will dramatise the information,
perform, record it and post the recording on the blog. They will be
presented in the meeting in Catania.
This is a nice way to learn more about transport.
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APRIL, 2014
DRAMATISING READINGS
I am looking forward to watching each school's
dramatisation of the presentations they had
been done.
Students are compiling information about the vocabulary related
to the transport each school has studied in each partner's national
language, to prepare a Multi-language dictionary (English-
National languages) of names of vocabulary related to different
transport The Polish school will be responsible for the presentation
of the Multi-dictionary based on the contribution of all partners. I
am excited!
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What a busy month!
MULTI-LANGUAGE DICTIONARY
After a lot of work at school, teachers will meet in Italy.
I am very excited! I'm going to
pack my luggage! All schools will
visit Istituto Comprensivo
Giovanni Falcone in Accicastello,
Sicily. It is nice to meet Mr. Natalino
Fraggetta (Principal), Mrs Caterina Scudery and the rest of the
staff. What a wonderful place! We have the chance to visit
three different schools and meet teachers, students and parents
there. The Comenius corners and the classrooms are really nice.
A lot of hard work!
MAY, 2014
THIRD WORKING MEETING!
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The Polish school has been
responsible for the presentation of
the Multi-language dictionary
based on the contribution of all
partners. I love it!
During our visit we got to visit the
Mayor of the town and he made us
feel very welcome. Whilst we were
at the school we got to meet lots of
children and we visited lots of different classrooms. It has been
fabulous to attend the concert by the School Orchestra.
Congratulations!
We have worked on the project and evaluated all the activities we
have done since the last meeting. We also got to visit many beautiful
places like Ottobrata, Taormina, Catania and Mount Etna. And, we
also got to sample some of the local food. I love Italian food And
gelato! Yummy! AN AMANZING MEETING!
School Orchestra Gelatto Delicious Italian food
We were all looking forward to watching each school
dramatization. Brilliant!
Dramatising Readings
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I am really happy to meet our Comenius friends in Sicily.
During the meeting in Italy we have evaluated the project
and planned the next activities. The main one will be to
make a magazine compiling information on one aspect or period of
the history of transport in each partner country. The Polish school
will collect information from the partners about one significant
event in the history of transport in their country and include
within this information the impact it had in the partner country.
The end of the scholar year is close and
schools have a lot of work. It is a stressful
time for everybody, also for me because I
am collecting photos from different
countries to upload them on Drive. I believe
it is the best way to share the photos and also documents.
https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive
And now…. It's time to wish a nice summer. We need a rest
because we have worked very hard! I am very proud of all partners
and I hope they enjoy their summer holidays.
SEE YOU IN
SEPTEMBER
JUNE, 2014
HISTORICAL MAGAZINE
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SEPTEMBER, 2014
BACK TO SCHOOL!
After our holiday, are you ready to work hard? There are many
things to do before the next meeting in Poland.
Italy coordinates video-conferences with each partner and
feedback on these video-conferences to all partners on the blog.
Students are waiting for next video-conference. Here you are the
timetable for the scholar year:
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All Partners are recording a video about the school to present it
in Poland and a song for 'The National evening'.
Comenius partners are in Poland
to attend the meeting at the Primary School in Siedlin, Szkola
Podstawowa. It's nice to see everybody again!
The meeting began with a wonderful
presentation of traditional Polish songs
and dances and a performance about the
magazine that the schools have all been
involved in producing. Amazing!
We visited the facilities of
school, participated in
lessons and worked on the
project. We also evaluated
all the activities different
schools have done since the last meeting and planned next
activities.
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OCTOBER, 2014
FOURTH WORKING MEETING!
Working meeting in Poland!
What can I say about the National evening with the headmaster,
teachers, students, parents and
members of the school council? We
showed a presentation about each of
our schools and then each school
performed some traditional songs
from their country. I love the
Comenius song and the nice T-shirt!
We visited Plonsk, Warsaw and
Plock, and enjoyed the games in
the forest and the carriage walk!
We also went to visit the Major and
the Commune Council.
CONGRATULATIONS FOR AN AMAZING MEETING!
The Polish school presented the
Historical Magazine based on the
contribution of all partners. It has been
printed on high quality. You can see it on
the blog.
fantastic!
Congratulations! It is
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After the last meeting, schools will prepare a mini-guide to compile
the information about important facts one should know when
planning to travel or live in another country: location, main
historical events, places to visit, traditions, what to eat
(gastronomy), what to do (free time), where to sleep, relationships
between people, etc. Every school will collect this information and
post it in the blog to share with the rest of the schools; the Greek
school will prepare a mini-guide based on the contribution of each
country. A lot of work to do! Are you ready?
NOVEMBER, 2014
MINI-GUIDE
Everybody is busy at the moment
working on the project. Students
from different schools are making
some Christmas cards to send to their
friends. And we also will send our best
wishes through the Comenius blog as
we did last year.
I have prepared a video to post it on the blog and send Season's
greetings.
MERRY CHRISTMAS
AND A HAPPY new YEAR 2015!
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DECEMBER, 2014 Christmas time again!
JANUARY, 2015
After Christmas time, all partners are ready for next video-
conferencing. Each country connects with another school once a
month. We are seven different schools, so Spain (as coordinator)
connects with two schools each month. We are very lucky!
VIDEO-CONFERENCING: JANUARY 2015
! Spain-England
! Poland-Greece
! Northern Ireland- Turkey
! Italy-Spain
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On the other hand, the Greek school will be responsible for the
preparation of a web-quest about the culture, lifestyle and
relationships between citizens in each country. They will present it
in the meeting in Thessaloniki.
And all schools are very busy preparing a video about their school,
to present it in the meeting in Greece.
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Thessaloniki
Oviedo
Izmir
Plonsk
Catania Belfast
I love it! I can't wait to
meet everybody again! Blackpool
WEB-QUEST
FEBRUARY, 2015
FIFTH WORKING MEETING! Thessaloniki, Greece.
M r s M a r i a B a s m a s i d o u
(headmistress) Mr. Kostas Okkaç,
teachers and students are waiting
for the Comenius partners who
received a warm welcoming. Students
performed some plays and sang songs.
They showed us traditional Greek
dancing. They gave all us the olive wreath
also known as kotinos (Greek: κότινος),
the prize for the winner at the ancient
Olympic Games. It was an olive branch, of the wild- olive tree that
grew at Olympia.
Everybody is very friendly here. We have
received some handmade presents from the
children while visiting different classrooms.
THANK YOU!!! We have worked on the
project, evaluated the activities all partners
have done since the last meeting and planned the next activities.
Also, we visited other school and the Major of the town who made
us feel very welcome.
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The Greek school has also worked very
hard on a Web quest. I believe that
students from different schools will
enjoy doing it.
What can I say about the lovely time we
spent at the theatre? Students and teachers
put on an amazing musical performance and
delivered a detailed history of the ancient
Greeks. We also had the opportunity to
present the videos about our schools. A wonderful experience!
During our stay in Thessaloniki we got to visit many beautiful
places: Mount Olympus and Dion which held the ancient burial site
of Phillip II; pretty villages such as Litochoro and St Antonios; a tour
of Thessaloniki; visiting the White Tower; Cathedral of Haghios and
many interesting archaeological sites and museums.
THANK YOU FOR A WONDERFUL MEETING!
The Greek school has been responsible for the
presentation of the Mini-guide which all the
schools have contributed to. It has been
printed on high quality. Schools have received
three mini-guides and a CD format. We will
post it on the Comenius blog too. It will be very
useful when planning to travel.
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The meeting in Greece has finished. We have worked very hard, and
we have enjoyed the time we spent in Thessaloniki.
And now… it's time to think about the next activities we have to do
before the conclusion of the project.
For instance: Working on a film lipdub that will
be presented by all partners as a final product at
the end of the project.
I will show the way, and pupils and teachers will
follow me showing how we have worked using
art and music. Wow! It's going to be a wonderful
experience! I am ready to do the Comenius trip again because I'm
going to help all schools to film the video. I will follow next itinerary:
Spain to Italy by train; Italy to Poland by car; Poland to Turkey by
bus; Turkey to Greece by hot air balloon; Greece to UK by plane and
UK to Spain by boat to complete the itinerary.
Northern Ireland is responsible for the editing of the lipdub. They
will compile all digital parts of the lipdub based on the work of all
partners. Schools will send their videos via Dropbox that is a safe
way to share them. LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!
MARCH, 2015
LIPDUB
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LIPDUB
Also, we have to work on a Slogan related to a common idea of
citizenship. Each school will work on the topic in assemblies in a
democratic way. Students will create a sentence that condenses the
idea they have about what is a European citizenship.
They will tell me this idea and I will tell this information to students
in the next country I will visit through my diary. Finally, we will
create a common slogan.
Here you are the slogans different schools have created:
'A community working together' (Northern Ireland)
'Always proud, always open-minded, always together' (England)
'Europe is well known for us today-Flash always shows us the way’
'Being together to be better’
'Thousand hearts beat for community’
'All different, all equal, all together’
'Building our path together’
Italy is responsible for the creation of a poster
using new technologies. It will include the
common SLOGAN based on the contribution
of all partners; the logo of the project and
also Flash, the mascot. Haha, Me!!!
The slogan will be printed on high quality to send to all partners
and to National Agencies. The Italian school will also create a pocket
poster version, to distribute to pupils, teachers and other members
of the scholar community. It's going to be great!
APRIL, 2015
SLOGAN & POSTER
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As everybody knows, I am writing a diary about all the activities
different schools have done during the project. I believe that my
diary is the best way to describe the project and all the experiences
we have had since the beginning until the end of it.
The project started in Sepember 2013 and finishes in June 2015.
I have to finish and print the diary next month at the end of the
last meeting that will be hold in Oviedo, Spain.
I will be very busy because my diary will have a handmade cover.
So I have to think about the materials I will use to make a nice
cover; for instance, scrapbooking paper, colored paper, cards,
fabric bows, glue, scissors, etc. So, it is going to be a stressful time
for me.
Do you like the materials I have chosen to make the cover?
MAY, 2015
THE MASCOT’S DIARY
DIARY
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exciting! I hope they like it!
The cover of the diary is almost ready! Have a look at the materials I
have used to make it!
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I have to finish the diary before the end of the project and also
describe all the activities we will do during
the meeting in Spain. The last thing I will do
is attach some photos and make the
handmade cover. Finally, I will present it
with the rest of the final products during
the last meeting in Oviedo. Schools will get
three diaries and a digital version. They will
help to finish the diary! I believe it is a great
idea! They will stick the cover! It is very
Oviedo,Spain.
The big day has arrived and everything is ready in Oviedo for the
final meeting of our Comenius Project.
M r s B e l é n C a s t a ñ o, o u r
coordinator, arrives at Baudilio
Arce school with the whole group
(22 teachers from different
c o u n t r i e s ) . M r s M e r c e d e s
Rodriguez ( head teacher),
teachers, some members of the
Regional Education Department,
students and parents are waiting for us. An Asturian bagpiper
plays some traditional Asturian songs, and students from different
levels welcome Comenius partners with the flags from their
countries.
Very nice
has been
countries
Welcome Ceremony! It
fantastic to stick the
on the big map of
Europe, also listen to the Welcome
song and sing the lipdub song and
the Comenius Project anthem!
Hey, hey, hey, let's play, with
Comenius is a funny way! Hahaha!
JUNE, 2015
FINAL WORKING MEETING!
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Cathedral, Fontán Square, Saint Francisco's park, Campoamor
theatre… and had dinner at a typical Asturian Sidrería.
We have worked on the project, evaluated all the activities different
schools has done since the last meeting and talked about the EST
(European Shared Treasure). During the meeting we have
presented the last final products: Our Final libdub (also schools
lipdubs), the Slogan and poster. They are fantastic!
POSTER & LIPDUB
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We visited the school and Comenius partners loved all the projects
we have done. That's great!
In the afternoon we visited the old city centre of Oviedo: The
What about the trip to Covadonga, Ribadesella and Lastres.?
Unforgettable! Asturian food is delicious and we had the chance
to drink 'sidra' at Asturian style!
Covadonga Lastresssssssss
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Students from Baudilio Arce school
have prepared a Musical trip around
the countries of our association. Our
music teacher, Esther has helped them.
It has been wonderful!
Congratulations everybody!.
objectives of the project in order to ensure that all the objectives
are fully met.
! We also talked about the development of the project and filled
in the final report.
The presentation of the mascot's diary was a special moment for
everybody. The mascot wrote the diary and made a handmade
cover. It is really nice and everybody liked it.
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To conclude the meeting, we worked on the final report:
! We evaluated the blog and web's results, and analysed the
The last day of our project has arrived! I can't believe it!
And…. Finally, the Summary of the discussions and final project activities: games and dances in the playground and some songs such
as the Asturian anthem..
We have had a great time in Oviedo. Our Comenius partners have
enjoyed all the activities we have prepared and we are really proud
of our Comenius group.
It has been a successful project. We hope we can do another one in
the future.
It's time to say good bye and conclude the meeting but I prefer to
say….. SEE YOU SOON MY FRIENDS!
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SOME NICE MOMENTS
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UK: Botanic Primary School, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Stanley Primary School, Blackpool, England.
Poland: The Primary School in Sliedlin.
Italy: Istituto Comprensivo G.Falcone, Catania, Sicily.
Turkey: Vali Kutlu Aktas Ilkokulu, Izmir.
Greece: The 10th Primary School, Thessaloniki
Spain: CEIP Baudilio Arce School, Oviedo.
Edita: CEIP Baudilio Arce School
Oviedo, Principality of Asturias, Spain